JAQR - October 6, 2024
Pittsburgh playwrights, Archipelagos, Santa Fe museums, Bridgerton, Australian sopranos, Pedro Almodóvar, and more...
Thank you for reading another issue of the Jeopardy Answer & Question Recap, or JAQR [“jacker”] for short. This recap includes two clues from each Jeopardy! episode between Monday 9/30 and Friday 10/4. The recap includes Daily Doubles, Final Jeopardy clues, and Triple Stumpers. The first half of the recap includes just the clues so you can quiz yourself if you want. The second half gives you some (hopefully) interesting information about the clues and/or some related info.
DAILY DOUBLE #1
PENNSYLVANIA LITERARY HISTORY
This playwright's childhood home in the historically Black Hill district of Pittsburgh has become an arts center
DAILY DOUBLE #2
ARCHIPELAGOS
This archipelago about 60 miles off the coast of Morocco is Spain's southernmost autonomous community
DAILY DOUBLE #3
U.S. MUSEUMS
Her story is told in 9 galleries through photos, drawings, paintings & personal possessions at her museum in downtown Santa Fe
FINAL JEOPARDY #1
SITCOMS
The first British sitcom to win a Best Comedy Golden Globe, it was remade in a U.S. version that had almost 15 times as many episodes
FINAL JEOPARDY #2
19th CENTURY NAMES
Shrunken auditory nerves were seen in his autopsy after his 1827 death in Vienna
TRIPLE STUMPER #1
WOMEN ON TV
Golda Rosheuvel plays her on "Bridgerton"; India Amarteifio plays a younger version on a "Bridgerton" offshoot
TRIPLE STUMPER #2
NAME THE CLASSIC BAND: A REPORTING
"Drivin' down your freeways / Midnight alleys roam / Cops in cars / The topless bars / Never saw a woman / So alone... L.A. woman"
TRIPLE STUMPER #3
ON AUSTRALIAN CURRENCY
A toast to this acclaimed Australian soprano & dame who appears on the $100 bill
TRIPLE STUMPER #4
FOREIGN FILM TITLES
Pedro Almodóvar's Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film: "Todo Sobre Mi Madre"
TRIPLE STUMPER ##5
U.S. MUSEUMS
In 2023 the National Museum of African American History & Culture acquired a major collection relating to this 18th c. female poet
LAST WEEK REVIEW #1
What woman succeeded George Moscone as mayor of San Francisco in 1978?
LAST WEEK REVIEW #2
The world's fifth-tallest building, the Ping An International Finance Centre, is in what city?
BONUS CLUE #1
FOREIGN FILM TITLES
Ingmar Bergman film whose title is from the Book of Revelation: "Det Sjunde Inseglet"
BONUS CLUE #2
POSSESSIVE TERMS
A structure of ropes & wooden steps for ascending a ship's rigging, or something that appears in Genesis 28:12
DAILY DOUBLE #1
PENNSYLVANIA LITERARY HISTORY
This playwright's childhood home in the historically Black Hill district of Pittsburgh has become an arts center
***AUGUST WILSON***
American dramatist August Wilson was born in 1945 in Pittsburgh and grew up its in Hill District, which is the setting of most of his plays. Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle consists of these ten plays, each of which is set in a different 20th century decade:
1900s - Gem of the Ocean - centers on Wilson’s recurring character Aunt Ester, a 285-year-old spiritual healer who takes Citizen Barlow on a journey aboard the titular legendary slave ship
1910s - Joe Turner's Come and Gone - centers on the residents of a boardinghouse, including Harold Loomis, who seeks his place in the world after spending seven years on the title character's chain gang
1920s - Ma Rainey's Black Bottom - notably set in a Chicago recording studio, the play centers on the titular blues singer (Black Bottom is a type of dance); it was adapted into a 2020 movie that starred Viola Davis and was the final movie of Chadwick Boseman, who played a trumpeter
1930s - The Piano Lesson - inspired by a Romare Bearden painting of the same name, the play centers on members of the Charles family: Boy Willie wants to sell the family's piano to buy land where his ancestors were enslaved, while Berniece wants to keep the piano since it's an heirloom and is decorated with designs carved by an ancestor
1940s - Seven Guitars - centers on a group of friends who reunite following the death of the local blues guitarist Floyd "Schoolboy" Barton, who was on the edge of stardom
1950s - Fences - centers on the garbage collector Troy Maxson, who is bitter that MLB was closed to Black players back when he was a talented baseball player; in 1987 it won the Tony for Best Play and James Earl Jones won the Tony for Best Leading Actor; in 2010 it won the Tony for Best Revival of a Play, and Denzel Washington and Viola Davis won the Tonys for Best Leading Actor and Actress, respectively; it was adapted into a 2016 movie and Davis won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress
1960s - Two Trains Running - focuses on the employees and regulars at Memphis Lee’s diner, which is scheduled to be torn down due to a city renovation project
1970s - Jitney - named for an unlicensed vehicle that carries passengers for a low fare, the play centers on a group of jitney drivers; EGOT winner John Legend earned a Tony in 2007 for co-producing a revival of the play
1980s - King Hedley II - centers on the title ex-con, who is trying to rebuild his life by peddling stolen refrigerators in order to buy a video store; the play opens with the death of the 366–year-old Aunt Ester and includes several characters from Seven Guitars
1990s - Radio Golf - concerns the fate of Aunt Ester’s house at 1839 Wylie Avenue, which is slated for demolition by a real-estate developer
DAILY DOUBLE #2
ARCHIPELAGOS
This archipelago about 60 miles off the coast of Morocco is Spain's southernmost autonomous community
***CANARY ISLANDS***
The Canary Islands are an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. The islands were named for their large number of dogs (or sea dogs, which are monk seals), not birds. Home to over two million people, the archipelago’s largest and most populous island is Tenerife. Spain's highest point, Teide [TAY-dee] Peak, or Pico del Teide (12,198 feet), is on the island. In 1977, the island was the site of the worst aviation accident ever. KLM Flight 4805 was taking off in dense fog and collided with Pan Am Flight 1736, resulting in over 500 deaths.
Some of the other Canary Islands to know include Fuerteventura (second largest), Gran Canaria (second most populous and home to the tourist resort Maspalomas), Las Palma (home to the volcanic ridge Cumbre Vieja, which could collapse and cause a mega-tsunami), Lanzarote (contains a large underwater lava tube called The Tunnel of Atlantis), and La Gomera (its inhabitants communicate over long distances using the Silbo whistled language).
The archipelago has two capitals: Santa Cruz (on Tenerife) and Las Palmas (on Gran Canaria). The Canary Islands are part of Macaronesia, which also includes the Azores (named for a type of bird also known as the goshawk), Madeira (named for wood), and Cape Verde (meaning "green cape"). The islands are home to a dish called papas arrugadas ("wrinkly potatoes"), which consists of potatoes boiled in salt water and topped with a sauce such as mojo rojo.
For more info about some of Spain's other autonomous communities, check out Daily Double #1 from this past recap: https://jaqr.substack.com/p/jaqr-january-28-2024
DAILY DOUBLE #3
U.S. MUSEUMS
Her story is told in 9 galleries through photos, drawings, paintings & personal possessions at her museum in downtown Santa Fe